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The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is seeking comments on three funding requests, including more than $8 million for the second year of its new consumer education campaign, ahead of its Nov. 2-3 meeting in Naples, Florida.

The molecule is best known as DME, or dimethyl ether, which has established a foothold in other countries, particularly China. DME’s striking similarities to propane have some within the industries exploring what they can do for each other.

Despite an unprecedented $250 million investment that delivered new products and helped add 1 million new propane-heated homes over the last decade, U.S. propane sales for combined residential, commercial, engine, farm and industrial uses have dropped an alarming 2.5 billion gallons since 2000.